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The new @grumpyismyleastfavoriteband is out today. I was lucky enough to come in near the end of the record to do some additional recording on tracks OBL, yr bitch, The Whale, Last of Your Kind, George Clanton, Solicitor’s Rights, Twentyfive, and Queens. It’s hard to pick a favorite. Catching a window into the process and attitude of the band showed me how much humility talented people can have. The fluidity and cohesion of six different people working together where members are just as likely to track together in the same room as they are to airdrop something from laptop to laptop feels exciting and modern. I’m grateful for how welcoming and fun the atmosphere while still having an immense sense of purpose. Heaven, Diego, Anya, Ellie, Lane, and Austin are all great and talented people and I’m proud of what they managed to put together for this album. Lila did some amazing fiddle recording with us too. Also! A special shoutout to Katie and Bayonet for having the good brains to platform people that work their ass off and have something to say, and to Rob and Eamon at Living Rooms Studio for hosting. I’m glad these songs have their time in the sun.

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UNFINDABLE RING is found! It is out, go listen wherever you listen, and ideally Front->Back. U.R. is an “adventure”, carefully threaded together to taste.
I play software synths and sound design (a lot of the grating, dissonant, field-recorded stuff) and a little cello and piano. Lane also played synth and piano, so anything played more tastefully and beautifully is likely her. My cleanest contribution is probably the piano on Queens.
I am so proud of this band. Heaven, Diego, Ellie, Austin, Lane. Everyone’s voices are clear on this thing, and it wouldn’t be half the record without any one member.
Front cover breakdown soon, but today I’m getting into the back cover. This was my original idea for the front, and I talked Heaven into keeping it in the packaging as the back of the LP. Since the art direction for this series was a kind of junkyard iSpy kid’s magazine world, we needed a treasure map somewhere. Heaven is a cool tattoo guy so I thought… “What if the Grumpy character had a big swaggy treasure map hand tat so they never lost the map on their grueling journey?”
The design is credited to “Good&Dunn” because my partner Aminta drew the treasure map in pencil and I converted it into a hand tat. They also kept me going with feedback, encouragement and shoulder rubs through every piece of art.
The hand-triumphantly-emerging-with-found-ring was originally going to rise out of water, but there were already too many maritime images & a desert-y landscape rounded out Grumpy’s travels. The sand is from a pic I took of Diego at some dunes on tour out west.
Another big inspiration this cycle was the lighting and perspective of the museum of natural history dioramas.
The ring is all the shiny jewelry I had lying around, collaged and swirled to show its unfindable-ness folding the universe in on itself. Each track title got its own little stretchy treatment. I’ve attached a pic of my desk on the final day all art was due. Note how it looks similar to the pile of junk in the art.
I wanna thank our amazing label @bayonetrecords . Katie, Sam, Evan, you guys are the wind in our sails. Hope all youse enjoy these songs half as much as we enjoyed making em.
xo - anya !!

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‘Unfindable Ring’, the debut LP from @grumpyismyleastfavoriteband , is out now.

After releasing two EP’s, “Wolfed” and “Piebald”, we’ve made it to the big thing, and we couldn’t be more proud to be apart of it all. Grumpy, a band of six (5 of whom are ex’s and 5 of whom are trans), worked tirelessly on this project and you can hear it. The texture, the witty and emotional lyricism, the genre defiance - it’s all there intentionally as apart of a bigger story.

These band mates have built the trust in one another to take risks in every way. It gives a greater sense of hope in the long winding path of relationships and collaboration, & in the relationship to ourselves and our community.

Album by Heaven Schmitt, Anya Good @good__anya, Austin Arnold @abernoodles, Diego Clare @d.a.crimson, Ellie Long @kidlakellie and Lane Rodges @rznlz

Mixed and mastered by Steve Vealy @svealberg

Cover art & layout by Anya Good @good__anya

Additional recording by @lucaspadulo

Featuring @lilalifting on fiddle

Distributed by @secretlydistribution

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Our new album Unfindable Ring is out today. We absolutely nailed it. Yes, we wanted it to sound like that. I’m so happy that you love it. Yes, you love it so much, we do too. Eat your heart out, kitten. 🎩
Love, Grumpy

Out now on @bayonetrecords
Physicals available for order and in your local indie record store.

Album release show with @publiccircuitband and @mermarcum on November 14th at the wrestling ring at 148 Frost st. Tickets on sale now while supplies last.

Album by Grumpy: Anya Good, Austin Arnold, Diego Clare, Ellie Long, Heaven Schmitt, and Lane Rodges

Mixed and mastered by the incredible, edible, Steve Vealy @svealberg

Cover art by Anya Good @good__anya

Additional recording by @lucaspadulo
Featuring @lilalifting on fiddle

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Quick trip to New York

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Hello, mother. I am on the front page of NME today. We, GRUMPY, have made waves. I didn’t take enough pictures when I was this bald. But I will not buzz it again until warmer weather.
The good pictures are by @michaeltyronedelaney

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Join us for the ‘Unfindable Ring’ album release show

Presented by Stereogum, Twenty Somethings & Bayonet Records

With performances by Grumpy, Public Circuit and Mer Marcum

Hosted at 148 Frost Street (Boxing Ring)

Perfect poster by @300billliondegrees

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Our beloved and long awaited song“Queens” is out now. ‘Unfindable Ring’ out 10/23, pre order it wherever you get your music! @bayonetrecords

This incredible photos were taken by @michaeltyronedelaney (which I crudely cropped into square 🫪)

Cover art by obviously @good__anya

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screaming directly into the faces of everyone i know about how the end of summer has been a real joy and look at us and everything we saw

ty @emilioherce for first pic :’-)

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next up in my series of BEHIND THE RING .. a behind the scenes look at how the sausage is made so to speak. this week is “The Whale” ft D.A. Crimson. the track is doing great, and even was written out in the guardian ( pic by @michaeltyronedelaney ) ! I even made a time lapse of the rough drafts and edits this time (slide 9). Early sketches for this one were inspired by concept art for walt disney’s pinocchio, where we’d put heaven and diego in a boat inside of a whale amongst piles of junk. When the cover art concept for OBL started to solidify as the image of the band in an intertube on the sea we decided it would be too much boat stuff to have both those two designs, so we pivoted to what I think was one of my first concepts for the record cover, a sky full of flying keys and Heaven with some binoculars by a seaside lighthouse. we tried a few different shots of diego, but the best one was a pic of them smoking from the BTS of our video for “bird parts” (also worth checking out). inspirations for the work (as well as the creative direction of the overall single and vinyl art) include the flying monkeys from MGM’s Wizard of Oz, Frank L. Baum’s original Oz illustrator W.W. Denslow, Terry Gilliam’s cutout art (also see the glutton in the video played by Austin our drummer) as well as his excessive use of fish-eye lens & absurdism & high saturation, the artist behind goosebumps Tim Jacobus, and iSpy Treasure Hunt, both the book and the 2001 computer game. and because i have been getting this question here and there, NO I do not use generative AI to make these! im an old school digital collage artist and i have been practicing that since i was like 8 years old. Everything you see in the cover is built from pictures i took or hand drew. thanks for all the love on these BTS posts, it’s been really fun to talk about this stuff with everyone and there’s clearly a hunger for this kind of large scope integrative creativity. make your dreams come true, fools!!!! > : )

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🚨🚨 PARTY ALERT 🚨🚨
Grumpy at Spring Bar

Join us for an album listening party and performance with special cocktails and surprises
September 27th (date change!!) from 6-8:30pm
RSVP now at the link in bio

Poster by cutie @300billliondegrees

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1 week of “The Whale” WATCH THE FULL MUSIC VIDEO 🎡🎡🐋🎡🎡

directed by @d.a.crimson
shot by @d.a.crimson @grumpyismyleastfavoriteband
edited by @d.a.crimson @ghostboats
styled by @grumpyismyleastfavoriteband
featuring @abernoodles @rznlz @good__anya @kidlakellie @grumpyismyleastfavoriteband @d.a.crimson

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